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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

State Aristocracy’s Pakistan – 11: Avenging the law!

LHC
stays proceedings in PML-Q MPs damages suits

LAHORE:
The Lahore High Court on Monday stayed the proceeding of a civil court hearing
Rs 50 million damages suits of PML-Q MNA Ch Wajahat Hussain and MPA Moonis
Elahi against former additional deputy inspector general FIA and investigation
officer of NICL scam case, Zafar Qureshi.

The
court issued this order on a petition moved by Zafar Qureshi challenging order
of lower court wherein his plea for dismissal of suit was rejected.Chaudhrys of
Gujrat had filed suits against Qureshi alleging that he had tarnished the image
of their family and damaged their political goodwill to a great extent.

Zafar
Qureshi through his counsel Khawaja Saeeduz Zafar contended that he had no
personal grudge against Moonis Elahi or his family and conducted investigation
purely on merit in the light of Supreme Court’s directions.

He
pointed out that such suits could not be filed against the investigation
officers and he got recovered billions of rupees from accused persons involved
in the case.He requested the court to stop civil court from further proceeding
into the matter. After hearing the initial arguments, Justice Mahmood Maqbool
Bajwa stayed civil court proceedings and sought replies from respondents.

LAHORE: Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa of the Lahore High Court on Monday stayed
proceedings of two damages suits filed by PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain
and MPA Moonis Elahi against Zafar Qureshi, the FIA investigating officer of
the NICL scam.

The
judge issued this order on a petition filed by Qureshi, former additional
director general of the FIA, pleading that he had conducted an inquiry into the
NICL scam on merit following the directions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
He said Moonis Elahi, one of the suspects in the scam, and his uncle Wajahat
Hussain had filed suits against him for libel. He said under law such suits
could not be filed against the investigating officer of a case.

He
said he had no personal grudge against Elahi or his family. He said he had
recovered billions of rupees from the suspects. He prayed to the court to set
aside the proceedings on the damages suits pending before a civil court for
being illegal. The judge stayed the proceedings and sought replies from the
respondents by March 12, the next hearing.

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The blogger cherishes a cosmopolitan spirit; he is a moralist; a rationalist; a philosopher; a political philosopher; he believes in Classical Liberalism, as a Theory of Conduct.
He has substantially contributed to the founding of the first free market think tank of Pakistan, Alternate Solutions Institute.
He is a writer who wrote / published dozens of articles on a variety of issues, and is author of 4 books.
He wrote / published short-stories in Punjabi, a regional language of Pakistan.
He composes poetry both in Urdu and Punjabi, and has already published one collection.